Mission Impact Report 2025 - Report - Page 9
Mission Impact 2025
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LA SALLE HIGH SCHOOL | CINCINNATI, OH
Above: La Salle High School freshmen
day of renewal.
As a Christian Brother’s boy myself, I know firsthand the
transformative power of a Lasallian education. Now, as a
Lasallian educator at La Salle High School in Cincinnati, I am
privileged to witness God’s grace unfold daily in the lives of
our students, staff, and families. One father recently shared a
powerful reflection after attending a freshman retreat here at
La Salle High School with his son Eric. This retreat is focused
on faith, service, and community. He wrote of serving together
with his son at the local St. Vincent de Paul food pantry, where
they met Ms. Lisa, a mother shopping for her large family:
“After morning prayer at La Salle, we left for our morning of
volunteer service together at St. Vincent de Paul. We were
helping our neighbors in need, when we helped Ms. Lisa, a
mother of eight. During our time together Ms. Lisa suffered a
panic attack, fell to her knees, and shared that she hadn’t slept
or eaten much recently. After a few minutes, when we finally
were able to calm her down some, she revealed through her
tears that her son had been murdered just a week earlier.
I didn’t know what to do, except ask her at that moment if she
needed a hug? She collapsed into my arms, weeping. In her
pain and vulnerability, she opened her heart to us, sharing her
story of loss, love, and perseverance. I shared with her that I was
there on a retreat with my son Eric, and she looked at us and
through her sorrow filled eyes she urged us to tell each other
‘I love you’ every day—not just through actions, but in words.
La Salle High School senior retreat.
We later accompanied her to her car, assisted her and shared
in meeting her mom. As a father and son, we will not soon
forget that powerful experience with Ms. Lisa and her mom.
If that encounter wasn’t enough, we returned to La Salle for
Mass, directly followed by a powerful witness talk focused on
the importance of our father-son relationship. This talk helped
to confirm for me that none of this was coincidence. God placed
us there for Ms. Lisa, and her for us. It truly was a profound
day that we won’t forget.”
In every Lasallian classroom—whether a theology classroom,
a football field, a theater, or, yes even a food pantry—the
sacred ministry of Lasallian education unfolds. It is there that
intellect and spirit converge, and the Good News of Jesus
Christ emerges from the God-centered relationship which gives
us a new way of being, thinking and living. For us Lasallians, it is
not just what we teach or where we teach that matters most—
but how we teach the young people entrusted to our care.
In short, our Lasallian classrooms are holy ground,
where relationships focused on divine union give way
to transformation, where students realize their full
potential of body, mind, and spirit.
